Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |
2 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
3 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
4 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
5 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
6 | A bit later on , I saw you touring round with the army recruiting drive , giving demonstration bouts . |
7 | Ah it 's sweet enough , I saw you coming in with a black one . |
8 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
9 | I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know . |
10 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
11 | She saw him jumping out of the door and the girl shooting him . |
12 | A moment later , between the nut-trees , they saw him running off into the field . |
13 | He saw it slipping around in a pool and then dividing into drops that ran apart . |
14 | I saw it pissing off with an apprentice on the way down to the start at Chester . |
15 | She saw us coming out of the restaurant and … . ’ |
16 | When he saw us coming back from the movies every Sunday , discussing the film , he would say , ‘ I do n't believe it . |